A few weeks ago a new singing group started in Greymouth. This week the group started to learn a piece of music that will be familiar to many readers… and listeners: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen.
The choir has been lots of fun. There plenty of laughter alongside some serious learning, and the group is very keen to try new things out, the German carol being one of them. The group meets on Thursday evenings at 6:30 and anyone is welcome to come along and try it out for a koha – donation – of $2, known as “a gold coin”. This helps to pay for the small expenses that groups like this incur.
Although there are meant to be three sessions in December, the last scheduled for December 21st will be cancelled, partly due to its proximity to Christmas and partly because we are unexpectedly going away for an anniversary and birthday celebration. Apologies for those of you who were hoping for a Christmas song or two just before the 25th. The group will restart in the New Year.
Next year the group has been asked to sing at Waitangi Day in Greymouth’s Dixon Park. The event is the annual commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Maori people and the British Crown, and the Treaty is often considered to be Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding document, alongside the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand that predates it by a few years. The choir has been asked to perform songs that will mark the occasion and suggestions are welcome for appropriate repertoire.
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